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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:43 
Transit: 13:00 
Sunset: 21:18
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π Piscis Austrini (pi Piscis Austrini)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 4:27 | Tran: 6:25 | Set: 8:24
Alt: -14.12°   Az: 231.36°   Direction: South-West

π Piscis Austrini is a variable hypergiant star of spectral class F0 in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus.

π Piscis Austrini visual magnitude is 5.11. Because of its faintness, π Piscis Austrini is visible to the naked eye only from locations with very dark skies, while it is not visible at all from skies affected by light pollution.

Image of π Piscis Austrini (pi Piscis Austrini) star
DSS2 image of π Piscis Austrini. The red arrow shows the motion of π Piscis Austrini during the next 10000 years (12.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and 13.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

23h 04m 53s
-34° 36’ 42”
04h 27m 56s
03h 32m 50s

J2000

23h 03m 29s
-34° 44’ 57”

Galactic Coordinates

7.99°
-65.72°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for π Piscis Austrini (pi Piscis Austrini).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.11
Hypergiant

2.83
F0V
7526K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where π Piscis Austrini is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of π Piscis Austrini. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

π Piscis Austrini is distant 93.20 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 6 kilometers per second.

28.59
93.20
-6 km/s
0.076 arcsec/y
0.08"/y

Alternative Designations

π Piscis Austrini
(pi Piscis Austrini)
SAO214275
SAO214275
Gl 886.2

Visibility from Your Location

Today's π Piscis Austrini (pi Piscis Austrini) rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 124.6°
Max altitude: 3.9°
Azimuth: 235.4°